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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
You really do hate VM don't you??
I don't know where you get your figures from, but on the news this moring it said that 50mb is currently availble for half of UK households.
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Nope.
You really can't read can you?
I don't know where you get your ideas from but last I knew the words "are on" did not mean anything remotely like "have nothing higher available to them than".
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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That's exactly the same numbers as I'm quoting. Except, if 1.2m were 28%, then the total would be 4.28 million, whereas TBB state:
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Broadband is very much a growth area for Virgin Media, adding some 30,000 net customers to its cable broadband service in the last quarter, up 91,800 over the last twelve months, taking the total to 4,850,600
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Looking at the results themselves, that's actually the total for *all* cable customers, not broadband. TBB also quote the "nearly" numbers as "actual" - i.e.
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28% (1,200,000) of customers subscribe to a 20 Mbps or faster product, 700,000 connect with 30 Mbps or faster, and there are some 200,000 customers on the 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps products.
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28% is actually 1,148,812 or, to 2SF, 1,100,000.
(Though if you look further into the VM's "over 28%" quote, the actual number of customers on >=20mbps would be between 1.14m and 1.18m. Assuming they'd have rounded up 28.5 to 29, then 28.49% is 1,168,916.)
If you take VM's own total broadband figure of 4,102.9 instead of TBB's misquoted 4.85m, then you get:
At least 2,902,900 (71%) customers on 2 or 10mbps (or lower), the rest of the figures are still the same, apart from percentages
Only 500,000 (12%) are on 20mbps (the same)
Only 500,000 (12%) are on on 30mbps (would be the same if I hadn't miscalculated in my earlier post)
Less than 200,000 (5%) are on 50mbps and 100mbps combined (the same)
That also explains the missing 8% - thanks!